{"id":111912,"date":"2017-08-14T22:52:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=111912"},"modified":"2017-08-14T22:59:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:59:19","slug":"duterte-appoints-sandiganbayans-gesmundo-to-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/14\/duterte-appoints-sandiganbayans-gesmundo-to-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte appoints Sandiganbayan\u2019s Gesmundo to SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111920\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DHKh_tnUQAAi9pU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111920\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DHKh_tnUQAAi9pU.jpg\" alt=\"Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo (Photo by SCPh_PIO\/Twitter)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DHKh_tnUQAAi9pU.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DHKh_tnUQAAi9pU-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DHKh_tnUQAAi9pU-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DHKh_tnUQAAi9pU-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCPh_PIO\/status\/896959046527229952\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by SCPh_PIO\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA, Aug. 14<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday appointed Sandiganbayan Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo to the Supreme Court (SC).<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ earlier summoned Espenido, Chief Inspector Glyndo Lagrimas, Senior Police Officer 4 Renato Martir Jr., and Police Officer 1 Sandra Louise Nadayag to answer charges of murder and arbitrary detention.<\/p>\n<p>Gesmundo will take the place of retired SC Justice Jose Mendoza who reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 on August 13.<\/p>\n<p>He became the fourth appointee of the President to the high tribunal following Associate Justices Samuel Martires, Noel Tijam and Andres Reyes Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his appointment, Gesmundo used to be the chair of the Sandiganbayan\u2019s Seventh Division.<\/p>\n<p>He was admitted to the bar on April 27, 1985, and started government service with the Office of the Solicitor General as a trial attorney in August of the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Gesmundo became assistant solicitor general in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, Gesmundo became a member of the Court of Tax Appeals\u2019 Committee on Revision of the Rules.\u00a0<strong><em>(PNA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Aug. 14\u00a0\u2014 President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday appointed Sandiganbayan Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo to the Supreme Court (SC). The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[6054,21196,1144],"class_list":["post-111912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-duterte","tag-justice-alexander-g-gesmundo","tag-supreme-court","mauthors-jose-cielito-reganit","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}